James Lightwood

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Affiliation: University of California

Country: USA

Publications

The effect of the California tobacco control program on smoking prevalence, cigarette consumption, and healthcare costs: 1989-2008

James LightwoodSchool of Pharmacy and Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of AmericaPLoS ONE 8:e47145. 2013

Forecasting the future economic burden of current adolescent overweight: an estimate of the coronary heart disease policy model

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Publications17

The effect of the California tobacco control program on smoking prevalence, cigarette consumption, and healthcare costs: 1989-2008

James LightwoodSchool of Pharmacy and Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of AmericaPLoS ONE 8:e47145. 2013

..The results are used to calculate new estimates of the effect of the California Tobacco Program...

Forecasting the future economic burden of current adolescent overweight: an estimate of the coronary heart disease policy model

Tekeshe A MekonnenDepartment of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America Division of General Internal Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations at San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California, United States of AmericaPLoS ONE 8:e81723. 2013

..Reduction of SSB intake and the potential impact on health outcomes in California and among racial, ethnic, and low-income sub-groups has not been quantified...

The economics of smoking and cardiovascular disease

James LightwoodSchool of Pharmacy, Department of Clinical Pharmacy, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94118, USAProg Cardiovasc Dis 46:39-78. 2003

..Observational studies of the direct medical costs following cessation in those observed to quit show a reduction utilization, but which may occur only after a lag of three to five years...

Evaluation of value-based insurance design with a large retail employer